Many Reclaiming classes are being offered in 2023. Some are online via zoom. Others are in-person.
Reclaiming’s basic introductory class is Elements of Magic. You can find the book of the same title (by Jane Meredith & Gede Parma) online.
Reclaiming Quarterly’s forthcoming book – already available as a free download! – can be found at WeaveAndSpin.org/spiral/
For latest class listings, visit BayAreaReclaiming.org
In other years, Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco would mean a November 2nd community celebration honoring the dead, with altars in a local park and a candlelight procession through the streets of the Mission District.
In the face of the Covid pandemic, the Marigold Project has moved the 2020 commemoration online, with beautiful elemental altars created by local artists.
Click here to view the 2020 altars, photographed by Noah Berger for the Chronicle.
Photos from a 2004 vigil outside the SF Metreon called Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement – a forerunner of Black Lives Matter. Reclaiming folks helped create a living altar.
Stolen Lives was organized by community activists from Hunters Point neighborhoods.
Reclaiming folks including Kevyn, Bill, Starhawk, and others brought potted plants to create a living altar. You can see the Pagan Cluster circled up to the left in the shot below, and creating altars in others in the slide show.
Photos by George Franklin/Reclaiming Quarterly
Dear Reclaiming Community,
Due to the pandemic, the 41st Annual Spiral Dance ritual will be held online on Halloween, Saturday, October 31st, 2020.
We hope you will join us on this blue moon, a mere three days before the election.
We in the Spiral Dance Cell decided to act with an abundance of caution to protect our Pagan community. We will be reaching out very soon with more information as to how you may participate in this life-changing magical working.
Yours in Service,
The Spiral Dance Organizing Cell
Info & Updates: ReclaimingSpiralDance.org
Photo copyright 2020 Michael Rauner
Direct action has a long and honored place in American history – from the revolution itself through abolitionists, suffragists, union organizers, civil rights advocates, feminist and gay rights activists, and on to today’s vibrant climate and social justice organizing.
Click here for A Brief History of Direct Action
Join author Luke Hauser for a profusely illustrated 25-minute journey through our past. We’ll focus especially on organizing from 1980 to the present, with sections on the 1980s anti-nuke movement and 2011’s Occupy actions.
Originally created around 2000, the show has been updated with a revised text and many new images. Co-created by Groundwork and Reclaiming Quarterly.
So make a big bowl of popcorn, pull up your beanbag chair, and get ready for a journey through our history!
Photo by Janet Delaney
Photos from Berkeley PaganFest 2012 – rare photos in the Bay Area, where most rituals are not filmed.
Click here for maypole photos!
Ritual planners teach the steps of the traditional maypole dance, but it quickly devolves into a do-as-thou-wilt celebration. The dance is always popular with kids!
Photos by Luke Hauser.
In solidarity with global attempts to slow down the pandemic, Bay Area groups are moving Spring Equinox rituals online.
Latest details: watch Bay Area googlegroups, or email ReclaimingEastBay@gmail.com for updates or to join the elists.
Photo by Alla Irwin.
Several thousand Bay Area activists shut down the central financial district of San Francisco, known as Wall Street West.
The September 25 actions were part of international climate justice events, including the global student strike on September 20.
Reclaiming’s Bay Area Pagan Cluster – Witches Invoking Creative Climate Action, or WICCA – organized a ritual for mid-afternoon. We processed down California Street singing We Are the Rising Sun, then did a short Equinox ritual in the middle of the “mural district” of Montgomery Street, ending with a spiral dance to Our Hands Will Work for Peace and Justice (Harvest Chant).
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